Description: The Social Cooperative Studio Progetto managesmanyinterventionsinfavorofchildrenandyoungstersonvariousfields:information,education,socialinclusionandactiveparticipation. It manages Youth Information Centres that worksinthefieldsofyouthinformationandyoungsters
involvement in anactivecitizenship.Itdeals in particularwithcounselingoneducation,trainingandjob,mobilityabroadandyouthparticipation in
the activities.AtthemomentwemanagethreeYICs:inValdagno,ArzignanoandTrissino. Since 2001 the Youth Information Office in Valdagno is part of the
Eurodesk network.

Tasks: The volunteer will serve and do his/her activities mainly in the Youth
Centre of Valdagno, but he will be involved also in activities of the other
centres. He/she will be involved in the following
activities:

Description: The Social
Cooperative Studio Progetto manages After-school activities during the school
year (September – June) and, in summertime, Summer Camps, placed in various
municipalities of the valleys of the river Agno and Chiampo. The activities are
addressed both to children (6-10 years old) and to youngsters (11-14). In the centres for
children, during the afternoon, the operators assist them in their homework and
involve them in recreational activities/labs. In the Youth centres, youth
workers deal withsocialization
activities and the organization of micro-activities suggested by the youngsters
themselves. In Summer Camps children and youngsters are involved in different
kind of activities: outdoor sports, dance, handcrafts, theater, etc.

Tasks:The volunteer will
be involved in the following activities

-supporting the
youth workers and educators in the daily activities like playing with children,
helping them with their homework

Description: The daily centres “Il Faro” and “La Lanterna” are addressed to patients with mental diseases and
social difficulties due to depression, personality disorders and/or drugs and
alcohol problems. The services host about 35 users and applies educational,
therapeutic and rehabilitative techniques to foster the social inclusion of the
patients. The projects entail different types of work activities that require
different degree of difficulty, along with other activities conceived to
promote personal care and the participation to communal life inside the
structure and in the local community. In the “La Lanterna” centre, the patients work
in a lab for restoration of antique furniture and manufacture of wood toys and
they also take part in artistic workshop like drawing and painting. The other
centre “Il Faro” manages Ortobombo, a lab dealing with biological
horticulture. The services include also short trips and journeys based on the
requests of the patients themselves and some daily activities like newspapers
reading and group lunch. These activities aim to help the users to recover,
keep and learn relational abilities and to improve their personal autonomy.

Tasks: The volunteer will
be involved in the following activities

-taking part in all the
activities supporting the work of educators and operators.

-proposing his/her own ideas
and initiatives

Profile of volunteer:

-age between 18-30 years old

-should be interested and
predisposed in working with people with mental diseases and social
difficulties.

-likes to work in team but
also able to take his/her own initiatives.

-should be responsible,
creative, curious, open-minded.

-Good manual ability is
welcomed.

Venue: Cornedo Vicentino, italy

Period: from march/april
2014 for 9/11 months

4. “No Problem” service

Description:The project is addressed to people with disability due to encephalitic
concussion or with disabling neurological pathologies. The hosted users are
about 17, most of which use wheelchairs or have difficulties of movement. “No
Problem” is a copy shop. The main activities where the users are employed are
PC data entry, text typing, simple graphical works, photocopies, binding and
pasteboard works. There are also daily convivial activities like coffee break
and lunch time. During the coffee break, for example, through newspapers reading
and other activities, the operators and the users confront each other and talk
about different issues. Theproject will alsoorganize tripssuggested by the operatorsaccordingto the demandsof service users.